Twitter = YouTube

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by EastSmith • 17 years ago

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ctingom• 17 years ago

Nicely said. It's about search.

Its not so much about search as the realtime indexing, at least for now. Their db is up-to-the-minute; their search algorithms are 15 years old.

satyajit• 17 years ago

Great article. Suddenly Twitter has become so powerful, be it at the Oscars, ABC Nightline or President's speech, everyone asks you to twitter them your opinion. In my opinion, that's huge... Google should buy it and provide seamless integration with Android. I hear they are planned to come out with Android for 5-6 other cariers (other than T-Mobile), this will help them for sure...

axod2• 17 years ago

I'm unclear why they would buy it. Twitter is not a heavy technology thing, Google could easily roll their own very quickly. The userbase also could quite quickly be built up from googles existing users.

The brand obviously has value, but I'm skeptical google would offer what Twitter would be wanting.

peregrine• 17 years ago

They've already got it. On Google chat you can have a status and on Google latitude you can have a status.

Google WANTS the users and the information they provide.

wallflower• 17 years ago

> That means Google most likely really, really wants to buy Twitter. (So does Facebook, but we'll get to that in a second).

I think part of the appeal of Twitter is that it is not a Google or Facebook property. A way to search content without going through Google. Real-time search can be really helpful, even if there is an echo-chamber effect at times. I find interesting people to follow constantly with 'SDK' as my Summize keyword. Plus, it appeals to at least two of the seven deadly sins (pride and possibly envy). I hope that they stay independent and start experimenting with revenue generation models.

herval2• 17 years ago

what difference does it make if it's a Goog company or not?

unalone• 17 years ago

How often do you want to see a video clip, as opposed to looking at realtime stats? I've done one Twitter search ever, for notadouche.com when it caught on, and that's all I've needed. If an event happens, Twitter gets hits, but even then the need for video is much more constant.

How many times do I need to host video versus talk about something breaking? How many times do I want to do each? YouTube gives me an essential service: put video online. Twitter doesn't.

How many times do you share a YouTube video as opposed to sharing a tweet?

Twitter = YouTube

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